З. И. Вайнштейн Л. С. Плебейская

Primary tuberculosis usually begins in childhood and affects the lungs and bronchial lymphatic glands of the lung roots. Primary tuberculosis may not give any clinical manifestations and is revealed only.by a positive Pirquet’s¹ and Mantoux’s tests² and X-ray examination. Loss of appetite, short periods of fever, slow .growth, loss of weight may be some of the symptoms characteristic of primary, tuberculosis.
Physical examination sometimes reveals consolidation of the pulmonary tissue. A shorter percussion sound and a small number of dry and fine moist rales are heard in the involved lung.
A favourable course of primary tuberculosis leads to the formation of a Ghon’s focus³. In unfavourable cases primary pulmonary tuberculosis may lead to an extensive inflammation.
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   Pirquet’s [pio'keiz] test — накожная туберкулиновая проба Пирке
   
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